Canada



J. KELLINGTON.

FlsH SALTING AND DESLIMING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 28. 1918.

Patented July 22, 1919.

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Be ,it known at I, JOHN KELuNeToN, a citizen of the Dominion Aof Canada, re siding at New Westminster in the Province of Braish columbia, Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inA Fish Salting and Deslimingl Machines, of which the followin is a specification.

- This invention re atesto-,a device for salt-l ing and de-sliming iish preparatory to pack-A ing the same into cans `-for cooklng. At present the fish, after bem V and cleaned and cut into suitab e lengths trimmed for packing into the cans, is put into brine tubs' where it is left for a suicient time to become impregnated with the saltland supposedly to have the slime removed. 'Ihe fish, however, is left for no measured tlme in the 'brine and beyond an occasional stirring no consistent attempt is made to clean the slime from the fish and, the proceedlng is generally considered by .canners as inw samtary and unsatisfactory. In the de-slimer, which is the subJect o this'application, the sh is conveyed for a definite time through the brine and during vsuch conveyance is tumbled about in it in-a manner that e'ectually cleans the slime from the fish and after the required exposure to this treatment, the fish is automaticallyl delivered from the brine tank to be packed into cans. v

The invention is particularly described in the 'following specification, `reference being made to the drawings by which it is accompanied, in which:

Figure 1 is a side elevation and part longitudinal section. a

Fig. 2 is a cross section and end elevation on the line 2-2 in Fig. 1. j

The device comlprise's an elongated brine tank 9,' havin c osed ends withiny which tank is suspen ed in chains 3 an -open-ended hollow cylinder composed of staves 4 secured to hoops 5 with spaces between the staves e of the pickling brine through the wall of t e cylinder. The endless chains 3 by which the cylinder is suspended and rotated are carried around the cylinder on Banged hoops 6 and ass.

over sprocket wheels 7 secured on a s aft 8 extendin len hwise over the middle line of the -ta T 's shaft 8 is driven b any suitable means and is here shown as riven by a belt 9 taking over a pulley 10. L

The shat'S 4is mounted. in a frame 11 Specification of Letters Patent.

Appnaon mea september as, 191s. serial No. 258,068.

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which is slidably mounted in an outer frame 12 to be raised and lowered therein by lines 13 connected to a ringat each end ofthe shatflt. 8, which lines pass over sheaves-14 1n e vu carried own and .'securedto a shaft 15 per part ofthe frame12 andere rotatably mountedr on the side ofthe same frame and. operated by Aa crank handle.

From the inner side of the hollow cylinder blades 16 radially project toward the center,

which blades are angled slightly to progress l c lin er slowly from the admissionto the delivery end. A The fish, being delivered to within one Iend Vof the'cylinder by a chute'17 is, by rotation of the cylinder and by the an le of the blades 16, progressed slowly to t e opposite'end, within which end there are radial shelves 18 which are inclined slightly from the plane of the axis of rotation.' 0n these shelves the sections of cutf-ish are 'lifted from the brine and fall upon 'a chute 19 which isprojected a short 'distancewithin' this endof the c 4linder and is downwardly over the end of the tank to deliver the fish to the can packers.

It willbe noted that the fish is with reasonable uniformity of time progressed by the blades 16 along the brineI tank'and by rotation of the cylinder isrolled againstthe sides ofthe staves 4, by which blade stirring and rolling contact the slime cut by the brine is washed o' and the continuous movement of the fish through the brine also serves to better impregnate it with the salt. The result is a greater uniformity in l the salting of the sh and a ness in the product.

` Having now particularly described my invention, I hereby declare that what I claim as new and desire to be protected in by Letters Patent, is:

greater cleanli- A means for salting and de-sliming fish comprising in combination with an Aelongated brine holding tank, an open ended drum or cylinder rotatably suspended within the tank, a supporting frame extending above the tank, cross barsv verticall movabl a driving sha t jlournaled in bearings in said cross bars, sprockets on said driving shaft, chain uides 'on said cylinder, chains taking aroun said i sprockets and chain guides to suspend.-

said cylinder in said tank and impart rota.- tion thereto, means for delive the fish to be treated Within one end of said cylinder,

meansl forl progressing the fish long the driving shaft and the rotatable cylinder as cylinder to the other end, means at said a unit to increase or diminish the dip of the other end of the cylinder for lifting the cylinder into the brine of the tank substan- 10 fish from the' brine and an inclined chute tlally as shown and described. f onto which the fish are deposited when lifted In testimony whereof I ailix my signature. from the brine for delivery from the tank,

Aand means for raising and lowering the JOHN K'ELLINGTONL 

